most pestilent
Example Sentences
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He is a most pestilent, abominable man, Mr. Boothby.
From The Vicar of Bullhampton by Anthony Trollope
To his disappointment, he discovered that the only reference in history to an Earl of Saxby made out that particular one to be a most pestilent Roundhead.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by Compton MacKenzie
Oh cruell and wicked Dogge: yea, and if I may so call my father, Oh Traytor most pestilent, do thou enioy Mustapha, his Treasures, his Horses, Furnitures, and the sayd Countrey to.
From The Palace of Pleasure Volume 3 by William Painter
I understand that you two young men formerly belonged to the squadron of that most pestilent heretic and pirate, Cavendish; is it not so?
From Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess by W. (William) Rainey
Most cunning and most pestilent of men, Nor I, nor any other Argive, saw Thee toiling in that fray, when Trojans strove Fiercely to hale away Achilles slain.
From The Fall of Troy by Arthur Sanders Way
